AllanCrossman comments on Calibration fail - Less Wrong

8 Post author: PhilGoetz 09 August 2009 05:15PM

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Comment author: AllanCrossman 09 August 2009 09:29:36PM 2 points [-]

Unless you consider it essential to the story, how about a rewrite to use just one unit type?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 10 August 2009 02:39:00AM 5 points [-]

I will be misquoting people then, and might remove a source of error. For instance, the woman might have meant 30 yards but said 30 feet.